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dent Sinnott later appointed on this committee Dr. Merrill, Mr. 
Torrey and Dr. Howe. 
Professor W. G. Waterman of Northwestern University gave 
an illustrated talk on “Flowers and Native Vegetation.” 
Meeting adjourned at 9:50 p.m. for refreshments. 
Respectfully submitted, 
ForMAN T. McLean, Secretary 
MEETING OF January 21, 1931 
The meeting was called to order at the New York Botanical 
Garden at 3:30 p.m. by President Sinnott, with thirty-five mem- 
bers present. Minutes of the meeting of January 6 were read 
and approved. 
Miss Marjorie Cotton, the Croydon, 12 East 86th Street, New 
York City, was unanimously elected to membership in the club. 
The resignations of Miss Emily P. Cohen, Mr. H. M. Ro- 
manoff, and Mr. R. W. Woodward were accepted with regret. 
Mrs. Arabella McKee, whose name was presented by Dr. 
Hazen, was elected to life membership in the club. 
Reports were read by Dr. Barnhart for the Budget Com- 
mittee; the Secretary’s report and the Treasurer’s report by Dr. 
McLean; and the Editor’s report by Dr. Hazen. 
r. A. H. Graves brought up the subject of welcoming new 
members into the club and making them feel at home. 
the motion of Dr. Hazen, Dr. Graves was unanimously 
elected a member of the board of Associate Editors of the club, 
with the understanding that he serve as acting editor of TORREYA 
during the absence of Mr. Hastings. 
A motion was made and seconded that the reports of the 
other officers be left until a later meeting. 
Dr. George F, Avery, Jr., National Research Council Fellow 
Botany at Columbia University, gave an interesting talk on the 
tructure of Embryos and Seedlings of Grasses,” an abstract of 
Which, kindly furnished by Dr. Avery, follows. 
A The grasses form a very natural and distinctive family of 
Owering plants, with about 480 genera and nearly O, species. 
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oy, of embryos, and the seedling types into which they 
siete indicates three general classes of seedling anatomy in the 
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